Intermittent failure of t1700-split-index.sh

From: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Date: Jan 27, 2017, 02:45 UTC
Message-ID: <818851a6-c3ef-618e-4146-518fbe6bd837@ramsayjones.plus.com>

Hi Christian,

I noticed the intermittent failure of t1700-split-index.sh (tests #17 and #18) yesterday. It failed in a full test-suite run, but would not fail when run by hand, until I ran it like so:

    $ cd t
    $ for i in `seq 100`; do
    > echo "== $i =="
    > ./t1700-split-index.sh -i -v || break
    > done

... when it failed on the 82nd run!

I only had a brief look in the trash directory, but I could see that the 'twelve' file did not exist, 'eleven' did exist and was in the index (well, git ls-files showed it), and that there were only two '.git/sharedindex.*' files and that their timestamps had not been changed.

I can't devote any time to looking at this further tonight (it's 2-45am here, I'm off to bed!). Can you reproduce the problem, or is it just me? :)

ATB, Ramsay Jones